Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
No god is absent where prudence dwells.
One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]
They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.
There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.
The face, not the woman is the attraction.
A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.
A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.
Have the courage to do something which deserves transportation if you want to be somebody.
A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.
Ask for a valiant heart which has banished the fear of death, which looks upon length of days as one of the least of nature's gifts; which is able to suffer every kind of hardship, is proof against anger, craves for nothing, and reckons the trials and gruelling labours of Hercules as more desirable blessings than the amorous ease and the banquets and cushions of Sardanapallus. The things that I recommend you can grant to yourself.
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.
There is no reliance to be placed on appearance.
Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.
Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.
There is great unanimity among the dissolute. [Lat., Magna inter molles concordia.]
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who will watch the watchers?
Men who ape the saint and play the sinner.
There is never a lawsuit but a woman is at the bottom of it.
From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]
There are many things which may not be uttered by men in threadbare coats.
Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.
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